On 2 Nov 2003, Wayne Talbot wrote: Hi Wayne. This has been posted on the list before. There are a couple methods. Do a Google search on these terms: root next cube site:classiccmp.org The third result will be relevant to you (be sure to click on the Google cached version since the CC archives are still offline). Try that out. If it doesn't work, wait a day or so and hopefully someone posts the more complete steps for changing the root password. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

Well, if all else fails you can pull the disk and put it on another machine (not necessarily a NeXT), mount the filesystem there, and do things like bash on root's password. In principle, that is. Doing this demands software support on the "another machine" that may not be at ready hand. But it's how I'd be inclined to handle it. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse(a)rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B